The Persianate Studies Workshop at the University of Michigan is delighted to host a virtual writing workshop with Dr. Ali Altaf Mian, who will be presenting a paper titled: “Surviving Desire: Reading Hafiz in Colonial India“. The event will take place on Monday, April 19, 5:00 – 7:00 pm(EST). This journal article stems from Mian’s broader…
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PSW Workshop with Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia)| Monday, February 22, 2021
The Persianate Studies Workshop at the University of Michigan is pleased to host a virtual writing workshop with Dr. Jane Mikkelson, who will be presenting a paper titled: “Mapping the Grounds of Verse: A Geopolitical Turn in Early Modern Persian Literary Criticism”. The event will take place on Zoom from 5:00-7 pm (EST) on Monday,…
PSW Workshop with Aria Fani (UW)| Monday, January 25, 2021
The Persianate Studies Workshop at the University of Michigan is delighted to host a virtual writing workshop with Dr. Aria Fani, who will be presenting a paper titled: “Disciplinizing Persian Literature: The Case of Twentieth-century Afghanistan“. The event will take place on Zoom from 5:30-7 pm (EST) on Monday, January 25, 2021. This paper…
PSW Workshop with Golriz Farshi | Monday, December 14, 2020
Please join us on Monday, December 14, for a workshop with Golriz Farshi, titled “Charity and Conversion: the Endowed Charitable Complex of Rabʿ-i Rashīdī.” Farshi will be workshopping a chapter from her dissertation, and would like to hear your feedback! The workshop will take place on Zoom from 5:00-7:00 PM(EST). Farshi’s Project reconstructs the lost physical…
PSW Workshop with Dr. Domenico Ingenito(UCLA) | Monday, November 16, 2020
The Persianate Studies Workshop at the University of Michigan is delighted to host a virtual writing workshop with Dr. Domenico Ingenito, who will be presenting a paper titled: “Enacting and Embodying Medieval Sufi Poetry: Performance, Performativity, and Sacred Eroticism“. The event will take place on Zoom from 5-7 pm (EST) on Monday, November 16, 2020. …
PSW Workshop with Dr. Sam Lasman (University of Chicago) | Monday, October 19, 2020
The Persianate Studies Workshop at the University of Michigan is pleased to host a virtual writing workshop with Dr. Sam Lasman who will be presenting a paper titled: “Hostile Others: What Did It Mean to Battle the Draconic in the Medieval Iranian World?”. The event will take place on Zoom from 5-7 pm (EST) on…
PSW Workshop with Dr. Alexander Jabbari (University of Oklahoma) | Monday 21, September, 2020
The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to welcome Dr. Alexander Jabbari, who will be workshopping a paper titled “Modernizing Persian Literature’s Homoerotic Heritage” on Monday, September 21, 5-7 PM on Zoom. This paper is a chapter from Jabbari’s book project on the emergence of modern literary history in Persian and Urdu. The chapter analyzes how the…
PSW Workshop with Dr. Alexander Jabbari (University of Oklahoma) | Monday, March 23, 2020
The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to welcome Dr. Alexander Jabbari, who will be workshopping a paper titled “Modernizing Persian Literature’s Homoerotic Heritage” on Monday, March 23, 5:30- 7:30 PM in 4000 South Thayer Building, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor. Jabbari’s paper is a chapter from his book project on the emergence of modern literary…
PSW Workshop with Dr. Waleed Ziad (UNC Chapel Hill) | Monday, February 10, 2020
The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to welcome Dr. Waleed Ziad, who will be workshopping a paper titled “Bibi Sahiba, ‘the Second Fatima’: Female Religious Leadership in 18th – 19th Century Afghanistan” on Monday, February 10, 5:30- 7:30 PM in 1022 South Thayer Building, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor. Ziad’s paper centers on the female scholar-saint Bibi Sahiba…
PSW Workshop with Dr. Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University) | Monday, November 4, 2019
The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to welcome Dr. Prashant Keshavmurthy, who will be workshopping a paper titled “The Brahman: Xenology in Amīr Khusrow’s Alexandrine Mirror” on Monday, November 4, 5:00- 7:00 PM in 1022 South Thayer Building, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor. Keshavmurthy’s paper is part of a section of two or three…